"Can I ask you something?"
As they walked, Chen Changan glanced at the old man leading the way. He had heard them say a lot earlier, but there were still a few things he didn't understand.
"What is it?"
"That Yun Sen—did he really appear out of nowhere?"
"Was there not a single sign beforehand? Did an invincible person just suddenly show up?"
"And based on your description, he seemed utterly set on killing everyone."
"No cause, no reason—just pure evil?" Chen Changan asked, puzzled.
At Chen Changan's words, the old man furrowed his brow. They remembered Yun Sen all too well, yet he remained a complete enigma.
"You find it strange? We've been just as baffled."
"Could he have been from somewhere other than the Eternal Land?"
"That's impossible. The Eternal Land has a special trait: all outsiders bear a mark. Someone like you, for instance—we can identify it clearly."
"But Yun Sen had no such mark."
"You knew I was an outsider?"
"Of course. What's the problem?"
"Mm... No problem."
It seemed that people in this era felt nothing in particular about outsiders. They neither rejected nor despised them.
Everything must have had something to do with enslaving the people of the Eternal Land.
But what kind of being was Yun Sen?
Why, if someone so powerful had existed, had the Human Race not been wiped out in the Eternal Land that came later?
Where had he gone?
The Ruler Realm?
Had he broken through into the Ruler Realm?
"By the way, did the Eternal Ranking appear in your era?" Chen Changan asked again.
"I've heard of the Eternal Ranking, but I never witnessed it myself."
"Each time it appears, it takes a tremendous toll on the Eternal Land. It takes an incredibly long time to recover."
"They